Karl Kolesch

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Karl Kolesch (born April 16, 1860 in Neustadt an der Orla ; † July 12, 1921 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German teacher and geologist .

Life

Karl Kolesch worked for 32 years as a professor of mathematics and natural sciences at the Jena grammar school. He researched the red sandstone in East Thuringia and made important contributions to the local stratigraphy of the Lower Triassic . For the sheet Jena of the geological overview map 1: 200000 he mapped the area of ​​the lower and middle red sandstone .

In 1898 Karl Kolesch became a member of the German Geological Society

Fonts

  • Across the border between Lower and Middle Buntsandstein in East Thuringia . In: Jb. Preuss. Geol. Landesanst. IXXX (1908), Berlin 1909, pp. 589-603
  • The Lower Buntsandstein on the Blatte Neustadt (Orla) . In: Jb. Preuss. Geol. Landesanst. XXXII (1911), Berlin 1912, pp. 219-231
  • Contribution to the stratigraphy of the Middle Buntsandstein in the area of ​​the sheet Kahla . In: Jb. Preuss. Geol. Landesanst. XL (1919), Berlin 1922, pp. 307-382

literature

  • Karl Mägdefrau : The explorers of the Jena Triassic . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia, 6, 1941, pp. 85–96

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory of the German Geological Society 1921, digital copy
personal data
SURNAME Kolesch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Orla
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1921
Place of death Halle (Saale)